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The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores the rich devotional life of the Italian household between 1450 and 1600. Rejecting the enduring stereotype of the Renaissance as a secular age, this interdisciplinary study reveals the home to have been an important site of spiritual revitalization. Books, buildings, objects, spaces, images, and archival sources are scrutinized to cast new light on the many ways in which religion infused daily life within the household. Acts of devotion, from routine prayers to extraordinary religious experiences such as miracles and visions, frequently took place at home amid the joys and trials of domestic life -- from childbirth and marriage to sickness and death. Breaking free from the usual focus on Venice, Florence, and Rome, The Sacred Home investigates practices of piety across the Italian peninsula, with particular attention paid to the city of Naples, the Marche, and the Venetian mainland. It also looks beyond the elite to consider artisanal and lower-status households, and reveals gender and age as factors that powerfully conditioned religious experience. Recovering a host of lost voices and compelling narratives at the intersection between the divine and the everyday, The Sacred Home offers unprecedented glimpses through the keyhole into the spiritual lives of Renaissance Italians.

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Title The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy
Author Abigail Brundin; Deborah Howard; Mary Laven
Binding Hardcover
Pages 400
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Date 2018-09-19
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780198816553 / 0198816553
Weight 2 lbs (0.91 kg)
Dimensions 9.2 x 6.3 x 1.1 in (23.37 x 16.00 x 2.79 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: Italy
Library of Congress subjects History, Italy
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2018946361
Dewey Decimal Code 700

About the author

Abigail Brundin specialises in the literature and culture of Italy in the renaissance and early modern periods. She has published on women writers in the first age of print, on literature and religious reform, including censorship and the first Indexes of Prohibited Books, and on poetry in and around convents. She has taught at the University of Cambridge since 2002 and as of 2017 is Chair of the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. Deborah Howard is an architectural historian whose principal research interests include: the art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto; music and architecture in the Renaissance; and the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean. A graduate of Cambridge University and the Courtauld Institute of Art, she taught at University College London, Edinburgh University, and the Courtauld Institute, before returning to Cambridge in 1992. She was the Head of the Department of History of Art in Cambridge from 2002-2006 and 2007-2009. Mary Laven is an early modern historian, who has published widely on the social and cultural history of religion. She is the author of Virgins of Venice: Enclosed Lives and Broken Vows in the Renaissance Convent (2002) and Mission to China: Matteo Ricci and the Jesuit Encounter with the East (2011). More recently, her attention has turned to material culture and she has been involved in two major exhibition projects at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She has taught at the University of Cambridge and Jesus College since 1997.

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Oxford University Press, 2018. First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. 1x6x9. Dark blue hardback with gilt lettered spine, complete with original dustjacket. In new condition: firm and square with strong joints, no bumps, no rubs. Contents are crisp, tight and clean; no pen-marks. Thus a very nice copy that looks and feels unread, now offered for sale at a very reasonable price.